NEW YORK --A body found last week in the trunk of a car parked behind a New Jersey diner has been identified as a mobster who vanished during his waterfront corruption trial, authorities said Wednesday. Lawrence Ricci, a reputed Genovese family capo last seen on Oct. 7, was shot in the back of head and in the back, authorities said.
Went old-school on him
His badly decomposed body was identified through dental records.
"Yeah, it's da capo all right. I'd recognize dat molar anywhere."
Ricci was acquitted in federal court in Brooklyn after he disappeared. The 60-year-old had been accused of steering a dockworkers' union contract to a mob-connected pharmaceutical company.
It's got everything, dead capo in the trunk, crooked dockworker unions, legendary crime families, New Jersey
His body was discovered Nov. 30 in a car parked outside the Huck Finn Diner in Union, N.J.
"He's dead, Huck"
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Amateurs.
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"...a mob-connected pharmaceutical company." I guess that's one clever way to hide a meth operation.
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"It's got everything..." ...even a pharmaceutical company.
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Someday, long after we're all long dead, someone's going to dig into the connections between the Democrats and the mob -- through the union bosses -- and a whole hell of a lot of US history is going to make a lot more sense.
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"Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever."
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DENVER - Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The mercury dived to a record 45 below at West Yellowstone, Mont., the frequently cold spot at the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, the National Weather Service said. The old record for Dec. 7 was 39 below, set in 1927.
Global warming is to blame, I guess, somehow.
The cold even extended south to the Texas Panhandle, where Lubbock shivered at a record low 6 above zero, the weather service said.
That bobwire fence must be down again
The coldest spot in Colorado early Wednesday was Hohnholz Ranch, 50 miles northwest of Fort Collins, which bottomed out at 37 below zero, the weather service said. Temperatures read like baseball scores in northeastern New Mexico — zero at Las Vegas and 1 at Raton. "I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast," said Bill Cox, owner of the Hillcrest Restaurant in Las Vegas. The cold follows a blizzard that blasted much of the Plains on Nov. 27-28, shutting down hundreds of miles of major highways across a half-dozen states and piling up snowdrifts 8 feet high in South Dakota. Elsewhere Wednesday, the weather service said record lows for the date included 28 below zero at Drummond, Mont., where the date's previous record was 21 below in 1971; 26 below at Seeley Lake, Mont.; 25 below at Laramie, Wyo., tying a 1978 reading; 17 below at Alliance, Neb.; 19 below at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 3 below at Lincoln, Ill.
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So when's Al Gore flying into Denver to do his Global Warming schtick at some fundraiser?
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I know it's cold here in HOTlanta. Or as we natives say, "It's colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra in Alaska."
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We're in the balmy mid 30's here in The Nation's Capital. Of course, Congress *is* in session. I expect the temps to drop when they shut their yaps and go home for Christmas Festivus.
San Jose, CA
Conditions as of 12:53 PM PST
Overcast
Temperature: 55°
Wind: WSW 4 mph
Dew point: 36°
Pressure: 30.08 in.
Humidity: 47%
Visibility: 10.0 miles
Observed at: San Jose, CA
Either they misjudged the distance or they couldn't take the traffic. For reasons that mystify authorities, five deer that made their way onto the top of a five-story parking garage suddenly leaped to their deaths Sunday. "On Donner, on Blitzen..."
"Wait, those are reindeer; we are just regular deer."
"Oh, bother."
THUD
Police Cpl. Steve Cox found the does' bodies on a service road to the Charles Town Races & Slots, next to a security van they'd narrowly missed. "They took the Nestee plunge," he said. "It was just absolutely weird."
A woman called police when she saw the deer falling, and Cox said he found scratches and animal hair on the fifth floor, indicating that's where they had been. It's unclear how the deer got into the garage, but Cox said they may have become frightened after getting trapped. Cars moving through the garage may have spooked them, he said. Or they could have been fooled by trees that can be seen from the top of the garage, mistakenly thinking they were close to home. I blame George Bush. Or maybe CIA mind-control rays.
The carcasses were given to passers-by for butchering. Well-tenderized.
Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) -- The Social Sciences Publishing House of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has recently published the book "Common Knowledge on Etymologies" (Vol. 1). It gives etymologies of most common vocabularies and their derivations to help the people study special and common knowledge on Korean language. The book has two parts -- "Words on Human, Food, Clothing and Housing" and "Words on Farm-crops, Plants and Animals"-- and a preface.
The first part deals with 179 words related with human, dresses, dishes, house, daily necessaries and farm-implements including head, face, tongue, cotton, fabrics, apron, yaksandan silk, rice-cake, half-moon shaped rice-cake stuffed with beans and flavored with pine needles, sweet rice dish, beef with vegetables cooked in casserole, roof, spoon, needle and plough.
It's been so long since they've seen food they need to be reminded there's a word for it.
The second part gives 95 words related with farm-crops, plants and animals including grain, potato, garlic, vegetables, flower, insam (ginseng), wild insam, wild grapes, bear, pig and crane and myongthae (a member of cod family).
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Oh my, this is just pitiful, an entire language and only 274 words total?
Seriously this shows a depth of poverty absolutely shocking, that the populace has only a few words in common. It means that schools are non-existant, and folks ridiculed (Like Hillbillies) are highly educated by comparison.
This seems more like the middle age serfs than anything else I've ever heard.
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So you figure North Korean "Jeopardy" lasts, what, about 5 minutes? And then it'll be on again next month when everybody forgets the answers?
Chinese armed police are reported to have opened fire on protesters in the southern province of Guangdong, shooting dead at least two people. Witnesses told US broadcaster Radio Free Asia the incident happened after hundreds of police tried to disperse up to 1,000 demonstrators near Shanwei. Protesters were angry because they had not been compensated for land taken by the government to build a power plant. The incident is the latest in a series of such disputes in rural China.
Police and local government officials have refused to comment on the latest incident, which took place in Dongzhou village, near Shanwei. Protests by villagers over issues such as land seizures, corruption and pollution have become more common in China in recent years. One of the most prominent such demonstrations, earlier this year, took place in the village of Taishi, also in Guangdong province. Villagers accused Taishi's chief of embezzling public funds in a deal involving the sale of a large tract of village land. The stand-off between locals and security forces lasted several weeks.
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Most Chinese cops don't carry guns. (Most Chinese crooks don't either). I'm impressed that guns - and ammo - were issued for this demonstration. I'm surprised that this is happening in Guangdong.
Officials in that province are corrupt - but they generally try for win-win outcomes to minimize problems like this. For an important reason - your average Chinese citizen isn't exactly a docile creature averse to violence or murder. What you see in the chop-socky movies is semi-correct - there is the mentality that if someone kills a close relative, it is your personal mission in life to kill him - together with his entire family, if possible, preferably in as brutal a manner as possible. Revenge must not only be carried out - it must be seen to be carried out. And most Chinese security personnel are neither allowed to carry guns under normal circumstances nor issued significant amounts of ammo for their guns.
A school girl in southern China is undergoing emergency treatment in hospital after contracting bird flu, becoming the fourth human case in the country, reports the state media. The 10-year-old girl surnamed Tang from Ziyuan County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on 23 November, the report said on Tuesday, adding that the ministry of health had confirmed the case. Tests showed she was H5N1 positive, the agency said quoting China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the fourth confirmed human case of bird flu reported in China which has reported two deaths from the virus. China has seen at least 30 outbreaks of bird flu in 11 provinces and regions this year, with nine of them in Xinjiang, according to the China Daily.
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Yikes. That's exactly 3 provinces away. It's getting closer.
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gromky, better stock up Sichuan hot toddy mix and vickers vapor rub ASAP!
Guangxi, hummmm..Hong Kong would be next door..Peking :) is 4 units away...unless your in Timbuktucky, your're in Zhejiang!! ^00^
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Don't need to worry about Apophis striking the Earth in 2029, China will inadvertently perfect this monster in H2H form well before then and do some serious population pruning.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the most effective lay treatment was chicken soup...
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Mike Fumento had an article about bird flu in the National Review a few weeks back. H5N1 has been around since the 1960's, with a few people dying every so often of it. Bird flu is the biological equivalent of global warming - more hype than substance. Garden variety flu kills millions a year, and you don't see this kind of hysteria over it.
The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday said it was standing by for an exodus of mountain-dwellers who survived the earthquake but are facing increasingly bitter winter weather. Jennifer Pagonis, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said that with more heavy snowfalls forecast by the end of this week, the Pakistani government estimates that between 100,000 and 200,000 people could head down to lower-lying areas in the North West Frontier Province and 30,000 in Azad Kashmir.
But I thought they'd rather die than subject their wimmin to the leering gaze of flatland furriners and infidels and such riff-raff?
No silly, they'd rather kill their wimminfolk than subject them to the leering gaze ...
Pakistan bore the brunt of the October 8 earthquake, which killed 73,000 people there. Another 1,300 died in India. Aid efforts are now focusing on the 3.5 million people left homeless, many living in tents not designed for freezing conditions or stuck in isolated areas that are hard for aid agencies to reach. Last week, the UN warned that efforts to shelter survivors from the Himalayan winter were on a knifeâs edge. Pagonis said the UNHCRâs top priority is âwinterisingâ tents in camps, providing survivors with three blankets each, plus extra mattresses and plastic sheeting, as well as stoves and fuel. She said the agency is tapping the knowledge of Afghan refugees, many of whom have lived in camps in Pakistan for two decades after fleeing conflict in their homeland and have learned to cope as winter bites.
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The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday said it was standing by for an exodus of mountain-dwellers who survived the earthquake but are facing increasingly bitter winter weather.
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Let's just hope that all the guys who trot on down from upslope carry with them a reputation for abandoning their women to die a miserable death.
Of course, there will also be a fanatic element who will admire these goons' determination and proudly marry off their daughters to them so that they, in turn, can be quiescently frozen like so many popsicles when the time comes.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With the space shuttles due to retire, NASA is looking for private companies interested in taking over the potentially lucrative business of flying cargo and crew to the international space station.
NASA/JSC plans to solicit proposals from industry for Earth to orbit space flight demonstrations of any combination of the following mission capabilities:
Period 1
a) External unpressurized cargo delivery and disposal,
b) Internal pressurized cargo delivery and disposal,
c) Internal pressurized cargo delivery, return and recovery.
Option Period 2
d) Crew Transportation.
Period 1 demonstration(s) will culminate with a rendezvous and docking or berthing with the International Space Station and either disposal or reentry and recovery, depending on the selected mission.
Proposals will also be solicited for mission capability d), crew transportation, but only as an option to Period 1 proposals for mission capability c) as listed above. The Period 2 demonstrations will consist of one or more crewed missions to the International Space Station. The option will be considered for execution only after the successful demonstration of Period 1 mission capability c).
The objective of these space flight capability demonstrations is to stimulate commercial enterprises in space and lead to innovative, cost effective access to low-Earth orbit. It is anticipated that upon the successful demonstration of any one of the mission capabilities prior to 2010 timeframe, NASA may issue a request for proposals to competitively procure commercial orbital transportation services to resupply the International Space Station. NASA anticipates that these services will be needed through at least 2015.
NASA intends to use its Space Act authority or other non-FAR authority to enter into funded agreements resulting from this announcement. One or more initial agreements are anticipated. Because a purpose of this investment is to facilitate commercial orbital transportation service capabilities for, in part, U.S. Government use, responders need to be aware that in making awards, NASA is constrained by statutory and U.S. space transportation policy requirements.
NASA anticipates releasing a draft of our announcement on or about November 22, 2005. The draft announcement briefing at NASA Johnson Space Center is tentatively planned for November 29, 2005. Additional information regarding the draft announcement briefing will be forthcoming. Comments on the draft will be due on December 06, 2005. Final issuance of the announcement will be on or about December 20, 2005. Responses will be due on January 27, 2006, and final agreements are planned to be executed in May 2006.
Please notify the Contracting Officer of your intent to respond by noon local time December 6, 2005. This non-binding letter of intent should include the company name, president, address, phone number, and point of contact. Please provide an e-mail address, in order to expedite communications. It is the respondent's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the announcement. Potential respondents will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the announcement and amendments (if any). Any referenced numbered notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B".
The announcement and any related documents will be available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/JSC Business Opportunities page is Link
All questions must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Officer (e-mail or FAX). Telephone questions will not be accepted.
In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness. A fitting name, astronomers reasoned, for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace. Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.
Nasa has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere.
And, scientists insist, there is actually very little time left to decide. At a recent meeting of experts in near-Earth objects (NEOs) in London, scientists said it could take decades to design, test and build the required technology to deflect the asteroid. Monica Grady, an expert in meteorites at the Open University, said: "It's a question of when, not if, a near Earth object collides with Earth. Many of the smaller objects break up when they reach the Earth's atmosphere and have no impact. However, a NEO larger than 1km [wide] will collide with Earth every few hundred thousand years and a NEO larger than 6km, which could cause mass extinction, will collide with Earth every hundred million years. We are overdue for a big one."
Apophis had been intermittently tracked since its discovery in June last year but, in December, it started causing serious concern. Projecting the orbit of the asteroid into the future, astronomers had calculated that the odds of it hitting the Earth in 2029 were alarming. As more observations came in, the odds got higher.
Having more than 20 years warning of potential impact might seem plenty of time. But, at last week's meeting, Andrea Carusi, president of the Spaceguard Foundation, said that the time for governments to make decisions on what to do was now, to give scientists time to prepare mitigation missions. At the peak of concern, Apophis asteroid was placed at four out of 10 on the Torino scale - a measure of the threat posed by an NEO where 10 is a certain collision which could cause a global catastrophe. This was the highest of any asteroid in recorded history and it had a 1 in 37 chance of hitting the Earth. The threat of a collision in 2029 was eventually ruled out at the end of last year.
Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer from Queen's University Belfast, said: "When it does pass close to us on April 13 2029, the Earth will deflect it and change its orbit. There's a small possibility that if it passes through a particular point in space, the so-called keyhole, ... the Earth's gravity will change things so that when it comes back around again in 2036, it will collide with us." The chance of Apophis passing through the keyhole, a 600-metre patch of space, is 1 in 5,500 based on current information.
There are no shortage of ideas on how to deflect asteroids. The Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency have led the effort in designing a range of satellites and rockets to nudge asteroids on a collision course for Earth into a different orbit. No technology has been left unconsidered, even potentially dangerous ideas such as nuclear powered spacecraft. "The advantage of nuclear propulsion is a lot of power," said Prof Fitzsimmons. "The negative thing is that ... we haven't done it yet. Whereas with solar electric propulsion, there are several spacecraft now that do use this technology so we're fairly confident it would work."
The favoured method is also potentially the easiest - throwing a spacecraft at an asteroid to change its direction. Esa plans to test this idea with its Don Quixote mission, where two satellites will be sent to an asteroid. One of them, Hidalgo, will collide with the asteroid at high speed while the other, Sancho, will measure the change in the object's orbit. Decisions on the actual design of these probes will be made in the coming months, with launch expected some time in the next decade. One idea that seems to have no support from astronomers is the use of explosives. Prof Fitzsimmons: "If you explode too close to impact, perhaps you'll get hit by several fragments rather than one, so you spread out the area of damage."
In September, scientists at Strathclyde and Glasgow universities began computer simulations to work out the feasibility of changing the directions of asteroids on a collision course for Earth. In spring next year, there will be another opportunity for radar observations of Apophis that will help astronomers work out possible future orbits of the asteroid more accurately.
If, at that stage, they cannot rule out an impact with Earth in 2036, the next chance to make better observations will not be until 2013. Nasa has argued that a final decision on what to do about Apophis will have to be made at that stage. "It may be a decision in 2013 whether or not to go ahead with a full-blown mitigation mission, but we need to start planning it before 2013," said Prof Fitzsimmons. In 2029, astronomers will know for sure if Apophis will pose a threat in 2036. If the worst-case scenarios turn out to be true and the Earth is not prepared, it will be too late. "If we wait until 2029, it would seem unlikely that you'd be able to do anything about 2036," said Mr Yates.
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"If we wait until 2029, it would seem unlikely that you'd be able to do anything about 2036," said Mr Yates.
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When I get old and losing my hair many years from now...
Will you still be ...
Hmm why do I need a nest egg to see me past 80?
If this hits nobody will need to collect SS.
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In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.
Huum...wonder if this evil spirt thingy sent some moose limbs spys ahead and are already amongst us? kinda skerry ain't it
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Oh yeah? Well, bring it on, lol. I predict it will strike the Kaaba at the precise moment of the Fajr prayer - the bitch that comes before phreakin' dawn and used to wake me up - Mekkah time on April 14, 2029. Why the 14th instead of the 13th? Lol, cuz they're a half-day ahead of these NASA (yeah - cap it cuz it's an acronym, AlG morons) hand-wringers.
Or we could launch the Kaaba at it to deflect it. Hmmm. Tough choice. Nah, let 'er come home to Papa Little Mo. 390m isn't an ELE.
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The Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency have led the effort in designing a range of satellites and rockets to nudge asteroids on a collision course for Earth into a different orbit.
So we're depending on the Europeans to save the world from this?
Where's my shovel...
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If we were really smart, we'd confirm this turkey's elemental composition and (if of use) head out to mine the little sucker into oblivion and come back with a boatload of heavy metals and other goodies.
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Hmmm, I wonder... how big chunk of a rock you need to pulverize certain, ahm..., significant location? (Add Qom and make it two chunks and we have a twofer! All we would need is wink, wink and then nudge, nudge! ;-) Yahwe is greatest!)
An Iranian military aircraft with at least 94 people on board has crashed into a densely populated district of Tehran and exploded, setting a 10-storey building ablaze. The C-130 transport plane crashed on Tuesday into a residential area killing many passengers and people on the ground, state television and witnesses said. Mojtaba Mirabdollahi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, put the death toll at 116.
A government official estimated the apartment block housed about 250 people. An interior ministry spokesman said he could confirm six to 10 deaths among those on the ground.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Survivors from New Orleans told a congressional panel on Tuesday they felt abandoned by government at all levels after Hurricane Katrina hit the city and had been subjected to racial slurs and menaced by guns when they sought food and water. Obviously Karl Rove and Dick Cheney were behind this.
"We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us," Patricia Thompson, a New Orleans evacuee now living in Texas, told a House of Representatives panel investigating the response to the storm. Hmm City Officials being blamed? Somebody call Oprah!
"We saw buses, helicopters and FEMA trucks but no one stopped to help us. We never felt so cut off in all our lives," Thompson said. And they couldnât walk? And how did she recognize teh trucks as FEMA? I don't think they had signe on them and I thought I heard they didn't show up for days.
She described "demoralizing and inhumane" treatment by police telling the panel: "We were cursed when we asked for help for our elderly. We had guns aimed at us by the police who were suppose to be there to protect us." Again the police are a LOCAL agency. CALL OPRAH NOW!
Thompson said her 5-year-old granddaughter cried in terror when a policeman pointed a gun at her and she worried about whether she had put up her hands correctly.
"I know the police were scared, but they had no right to treat everyone like criminals," she said. LOCAL Police from the city. Again NOT FEMA, CALL OPRAH!
The witnesses blamed local, state and federal officials for inadequately responding to victims in New Orleans and told the committee they thought racism was the root cause of their harsh treatment after the storm caused massive flooding in the city more than three months ago. Harsh treatment by LOCAL officials. Anyone seeing a pattern here?
Of the five African Americans who testified, only Terrol Williams, a former federal worker, said he did not think the botched response was rooted in racial attitudes. He said authorities were unprepared and a mandatory evacuation should have been ordered sooner. Traitor! He was shot by McKinney after testifying.
Leah Hodges, a community activist, recalled trying to help a group of stranded senior citizens. The military took them to an evacuation point on a highway where they spent the night, awakening to a "bunch of hard red necks scowling and growling at us in military uniforms ... pointing guns at us and treating us worse than prisoners of war," she said. These were obviously the local RNC goons.
Hodges described waiting in the burning sun in conditions she likened to a concentration camp. Rep. Jeff Miller, a Florida Republican, asked her to stop making that comparison.
"I'm going to call it what it is. If I put a dress on a pig, a pig is still a pig," she responded heatedly. Ok I wonât dress it up: âYou are a liar.â
Miller countered, "Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed."
In another exchange, Rep. Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican, pressed witness Dyan French to explain why she believed the New Orleans' levees had been bombed.
French, a community leader who opened her home to help storm victims, responded that she heard two loud booms right before the floodwaters overwhelmed her neighborhood. Could have been bombs or could have been Ray Nagins Rocket powered car taking off for Dallas.
Rep. Tom Davis, the Virginia Republican heading the House's investigation into the botched government hurricane response, said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin would testify next week. I am sure he will own up to his culpability in this fiasco (and right after that pigs will grow wings and fly). While I truly believe it was not fun to go through a class 3 hurricane, I doubt that any responder made a decision based on race. If what they said was true then the LOCAL people have some issues to deal with. I would really like to see Gov Blanco in front of this panel (under oath) to answer some questions about her actions or more importantly lact of action.
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...bunch of hard red necks scowling and growling at us in military uniforms ...
Yikes- sounds like my Guard unit!
Yep, the National Guard Scowl and Growl(TM), remember to ask for it by name. Accept no substitues. It's guaranteed to keep uppity refugees in their place.
In all seriousness, while I have some sympathy for people who are too poor to evacuate when necessary, I have none what so ever for whiny twits who are unwilling to show even the slightest initiative to help themselves. If you recieve help in your hour of need from total strangers without prompting, the only appropriate response is "Thank you".
Especialy if they are armed, scowling and growling. You do not want to provoke them into placing their hands on their hips in a threatining manner--a.k.a. The Ambassador Bolton Pose. You can wind up with a damaged self esteem that way.
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Leah sounds like a real peach. Too bad she made it through the hurricane
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There's a new lead at the link:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
I'll translate: "Give us money to ease our pain. Lot's of money."
Think how much worse it would be if the victims of the government hunter/killer dolphins were still alive to testify...
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Of the five African Americans who testified, only Terrol Williams, a former federal worker, said he did not think the botched bombing response was rooted in racial attitudes.
When people describe the inconvenience of a few days or a week with the horror of the Holocaust and real genocide, they should be whipped like the money lenders from the steps.
"We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us,"
You elected them. You get what you tolerate. Wasn't important enough before the disaster because you believe it is everyone elses responsibility to take care of you. You get out of the system what you put into the system.
A little math. Carrying only one change of basic clothing, you can carry a couple days food ration and make 3 miles an hour. 10 hours is 30 miles. 5 days is 150 miles. Take more rest stops and do 20 miles a day and you still cover 100 miles in 5 days.
Wonder if the panel is going to hear from NO residents who've choosen not to return and have started up productive and employed lifes elsewhere? Nah.
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For the proverbial record, I dealt with a couple of dozen Guardsmen after the storm (checkpoints, etc.) including troops from Oregon and Massachusetts. Not only were they courteous and professional; they were the only people on the scene who seemed to have the slightest clue about how to conduct themselves.
So thanks to the NG -- you really saved our butts.
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So, originally that was a Reuters story at the link, and now it's a completely different AP story? The AP story was in the paper this morning, under the headline, "Katrina victims liken ordeal to the Holocaust". I particularly liked the part about being consumed by maggots and flies.
Cole: "I was on my front porch. I have witnesses that they bombed the walls of the levee."
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT): "Can you see the levee breach from your house?"
Cole: "I haven't looked for it. I'm still looking for dead people."
Shays: "I'm asking you a question."
Cole: "You can't see from one street to the other if you got two-story houses and trees. I live on a tree-lined street."
Shays: "The first question was how far away-"
Cole: "Can I see? No, I can't see you. I wear glasses, and I can't afford to buy any. I heard-"
Shays: "Ma'am, we don't need to speak in tongues. We just need to speak in honest answers."
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French, a community leader who opened her home to help storm victims, responded that she heard two loud booms right before the floodwaters overwhelmed her neighborhood.
Booms?! In a hurricane?! It's UNPOSSIBLE!!!
*sigh*
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Globalresearch.ca
September 8, 2005
HalliburtonWatch.org
The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Joseph Allbaugh, now a lobbyist for the evil Halliburton, is in Lousiana helping his clients obtain disaster relief contracts, the Washington Post reported today.
Looks like a FEMA - Halliburton - Bush - Cheney conspiracy, first the BOOOM! ..... then the bucks!
$2,000 debit card: Check
Hotel bill paid by FEMA until Jan. 1: Check
Mayor who failed you but it's Bush's fault: Check
Living to go to D.C. (expenses paid) to hem and haw for McKenney: PRICELESS
Yeah, it's all the evil Bushitler's fault. "Dem' levees, yeah, I heard doze 2 explosions and looked up to see Cheney and 'Leeza up on them with C-4 handed to them by them scowling red-necks in camo...ya know, that Nat'l Guard thingee!"
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No problem Leah, next time we is sending a fleet of Iranian C-130's to getcha.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
NEW YORK --A body found last week in the trunk of a car parked behind a New Jersey diner has been identified as a mobster who vanished during his waterfront corruption trial, authorities said Wednesday. Lawrence Ricci, a reputed Genovese family capo last seen on Oct. 7, was shot in the back of head and in the back, authorities said. 
DENVER - Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The mercury dived to a record 45 below at West Yellowstone, Mont., the frequently cold spot at the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, the National Weather Service said. The old record for Dec. 7 was 39 below, set in 1927. 
A school girl in southern China is undergoing emergency treatment in hospital after contracting bird flu, becoming the fourth human case in the country, reports the state media. The 10-year-old girl surnamed Tang from Ziyuan County in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on 23 November, the report said on Tuesday, adding that the ministry of health had confirmed the case. Tests showed she was H5N1 positive, the agency said quoting China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the fourth confirmed human case of bird flu reported in China which has reported two deaths from the virus. China has seen at least 30 outbreaks of bird flu in 11 provinces and regions this year, with nine of them in Xinjiang, according to the China Daily.
In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness. A fitting name, astronomers reasoned, for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace. Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.
If, at that stage, they cannot rule out an impact with Earth in 2036, the next chance to make better observations will not be until 2013. Nasa has argued that a final decision on what to do about Apophis will have to be made at that stage. "It may be a decision in 2013 whether or not to go ahead with a full-blown mitigation mission, but we need to start planning it before 2013," said Prof Fitzsimmons. In 2029, astronomers will know for sure if Apophis will pose a threat in 2036. If the worst-case scenarios turn out to be true and the Earth is not prepared, it will be too late. "If we wait until 2029, it would seem unlikely that you'd be able to do anything about 2036," said Mr Yates.
An Iranian military aircraft with at least 94 people on board has crashed into a densely populated district of Tehran and exploded, setting a 10-storey building ablaze. The C-130 transport plane crashed on Tuesday into a residential area killing many passengers and people on the ground, state television and witnesses said. Mojtaba Mirabdollahi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, put the death toll at 116.
